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Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, a former school teacher who became one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords as head of the Knights Templar cartel, was captured early Friday by federal police as he tried to sneak out of a house wearing a baseball cap and a scarf to hide his identity. Gomez was arrested at a house in Morelia, the capital of the western state of Michoacan, along with eight bodyguards and associates toting a grenade launcher, three grenades, a machine pistol and assault rifles, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said. Gomez and his accomplices were arrested without a shot fired, after a months-long intelligence stakeout in which his associates...

A purse-snatching at a restaurant in Riverwoods led to a state and federal investigation, and an arrest on Feb. 19 in New York City.
According to a Riverwoods police report, a woman told officers on Feb. 10 that, while she was eating at the Panera...

The rallying cry in Ferguson was "Hands up, don't shoot!" In New York, it was "I can't breathe!" In Pasco these days, the protest signs say things like "It was just a rock!!!"
In a case with unmistakable echoes of Ferguson...

Gonzalo Arroyo, the retiring director of Family Focus Aurora, is known for many things. Friends and colleagues speak highly of his ability to build teams, advocate for his community and navigate the complex web of U.S.-Mexico relations.
They praise his...

The number of confirmed dead from a collision between a passenger bus and a freight train in northern Mexico has been raised to 20, officials said Saturday.
Authorities in the state of Nuevo Leon said 16 dead were taken to facilities there after Friday's...

A passenger bus and a freight train collided at a grade crossing in northern Mexico on Friday, killing at least 16 people and injuring 22, an official in Nuevo Leon state said.
The official said the accident occurred in the town of Anahuac, which is near...

Thirty-two people from the United States and Mexico are accused of running a multistate gold-for-cash scheme that laundered more than $100 million in U.S. profits for Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, a complaint unsealed this week in federal court...

Ernesta, the Mexican wolf removed from captivity at Brookfield Zoo to be part of a recovery program in the wild, was found dead in western New Mexico, officials have announced.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed that Ernesta's body was found...

A former U.S. Border Patrol agent who shot and wounded a Mexican man intentionally used excessive force and was not justified in opening fire, a federal judge said as he awarded the victim half a million dollars in a lawsuit.Gunfire hit Jesus...

Offering to replace Mexico as host of the 2017 World Aquatics Championships might win the United States big brownie points in the race for the 2024 Summer Olympics – especially since the water event is to take place a couple months before the vote...

For a couple of drug dealers from Chicago's West Side, twin brothers Pedro and Margarito Flores had hit the big time by November 2008, negotiating a heroin deal over the phone in Mexico with none other than Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the...

Drug smugglers are turning "trusted travelers" into unwitting mules by placing containers with powerful magnets under their cars in Mexico and then recovering the illegal cargo far from the view of border authorities in the United States.
One...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent who shot and killed a Mexican 15-year-old boy across the border should be accountable in U.S. district court because all of his actions were in the country, an attorney for the boy's parents told judges Wednesday.
"There...

Injured and bleeding, mothers grasping infants in their arms fled from a maternity hospital shattered by a powerful gas explosion Thursday, and rescuers began smashing sledgehammers through fallen concrete hunting for others who might be trapped.
A nurse...

A proposal to repeal a New Mexico law that allows immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally to obtain driver's licenses has cleared its first hurdle Thursday despite objections from immigrant groups and a comparison to the Holocaust.
After a...

Inside the maternity hospital on the western edge of Mexico City, concern quickly turned to panic as the sour smell of propane seeped in and a vapor cloud grew at the emergency room's entrance. The crew of a gas tanker truck outside began yelling:...

A team of Argentine forensics experts is questioning Mexico's probe of the disappearance of 43 students, saying that the evidence doesn't support the government's conclusion and that it should be allowed to investigate all theories.
The Argentine...

Sixty rotting bodies have been found at a shuttered crematorium near Acapulco after neighbors complained to authorities about a foul smell coming from the building, officials said Friday.The bodies, including those of men, women and children, were...

Tests have identified the remains of one of 43 trainee teachers abducted 10 weeks ago in southwestern Mexico, a source close to the investigation said on Saturday, apparently confirming a feared massacre the government has blamed on drug gang henchmen.The...